SpeechBrain: A General-Purpose Speech Toolkit
This toolkit addresses the problem of complex and fragmented speech technology development for researchers and developers, though it is incremental as it builds on existing methods.
The authors tackled the need for accessible neural speech processing tools by developing SpeechBrain, an open-source toolkit that achieves competitive or state-of-the-art performance across various speech benchmarks.
SpeechBrain is an open-source and all-in-one speech toolkit. It is designed to facilitate the research and development of neural speech processing technologies by being simple, flexible, user-friendly, and well-documented. This paper describes the core architecture designed to support several tasks of common interest, allowing users to naturally conceive, compare and share novel speech processing pipelines. SpeechBrain achieves competitive or state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of speech benchmarks. It also provides training recipes, pretrained models, and inference scripts for popular speech datasets, as well as tutorials which allow anyone with basic Python proficiency to familiarize themselves with speech technologies.